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Sheffield DocFest

6 June – 11 May 2019

The festival will run from 6-11 June, opening with the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona. This year's country focus will be Japan.

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  • The Vibrant Village
    Review preview for The Vibrant Village

    Jurkiewicz drinks in all the life the village offers, almost imperceptibly soldering her own connections between the external environments and the internal, the women and the men, the traditional and the unexpected.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    In a quiet Hungarian village, men gather to swill beer at the bar. Meanwhile the women are busy at work manufacturing something unexpected.
  • What We Left Unfinished
    Review preview for What We Left Unfinished

    The stories are astonishing.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Story of five unfinished fiction films from Communist-era Afghanistan.
  • A Love Song For Latasha
    Review preview for A Love Song For Latasha

    Fluid and ever-changing, it evokes an immediate, fluid presence with none of the formality of death or history.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, this film reimagines a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.
  • Mother
    Review preview for Mother

    There is something extremely sad about the collision of two women with each other.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 2.5 out of 5
    In Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland.
  • Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin
    Review preview for Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin

    Everything comes to life under Herzog's gaze, but rarely has he revealed so much of himself directly.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    When writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.
  • Seahorse
    Review preview for Seahorse

    Finlay has a good eye for the details that help us connect to people and places.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
  • Tiny Souls
    Review preview for Tiny Souls

    The film is given an added poignancy because it has a specific personal connection to Naser.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Following lives of three siblings in a refugee camp as their time their stretches from weeks to years.
  • Push
    Review preview for Push

    Push skips along briskly, making light, incisive work of an area that’s all too often mystified, but it feels like a pilot, rather than a self-contained work.

    Sunil Chauhan · 3.5 out of 5
    An international look at the global housing crisis in our cities.
  • Dive: Rituals In Water
    Review preview for Dive: Rituals In Water

    The sight of a four month old child standing upright on Snorri's hand, raised up above the water, will simultaneously awe and terrify many parents.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Portrait of Icelandic pioneer Snorri Magnusson, who has been patiently teaching babies to float and paddle for over 25 years.
  • In Search...
    Review preview for In Search...

    The very intimate, personal nature of this film imbues with authority and sensitivity.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about the lasting trauma of female genital mutilation and the filmmaker's reconstructive journey.

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